September 2012 - February 2013
Welcome to Bookmarks X. Over the last nine years, the Bookmarks series of free artwork distribution has visited 93 venues in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey the UK and USA.
356 artists have contributed 35,600 bookmarks to the ten projects to date.
Bookmarks X includes 30 artists from Australia, Canada, Croatia (pupils from Djurmanec Primary school), Germany, the UK and USA. All of the bookmarks have been archived in the gallery section here, with each artist’s contact details, so you can visit their websites and see more of their book works. We have a super selection of bookmarks produced with photography, relief print, letterpress, rubber stamps, stitch, laser cutting, folding structures, hand painted watercolour, stencilled, etc.
Many thanks to the artist Hazel Grainger, one of the contributors, who also volunteered to be our brilliant bookmarks helper again this year. Hazel has counted, stamped, scanned, sorted and collated the artists’ sets and venue sets - thanks also to our MA student summer intern Liz Bath who helped with all the packing and sending of the sets to the artist contributors this year.
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Venues this year are in Australia (Melbourne), Canada (Vancouver), Egypt (Cairo), Iceland (Reykjavik), Italy (Milan), Japan (Saitama), the UK (Bournemouth and Stirling) and the USA (Minneapolis and Tacoma). The bookmarks will also be making a guest appearance with an exhibition of Miniature Books from the Milan Archive, in the beautiful Sala Maria Teresa at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, via Brera, 28, 20121 Milan, from Friday 28th September until 12th October 2012.
If you have found one of Ingrid Wiche’s bookmarks please visit her page where you can download the whole image plan with heights and details, to see where your bookmark has come from!
Read a review of Bookmarks X by Laine Farley on BiblioBuffett!
Venues for Bookmarks X from 15th September 2012 – 15th February 2013 (including some variables as they pop up in other places) are:
| Al Kotob Khan book shop 3/1 EL Lasilky Road, New Maadi Cairo 11742 Egypt www.kotobkhan.com |
Arts University College at Bournemouth Library Wallisdown Poole Dorset BH12 5HH UK www.aucblibrary.info |
Stirling Central Library Corn Exchange Road Stirling FK8 2HX Scotland UK www.stirling.gov.uk/libraries |
| Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library
University of Minnesota 210 Rapson Hall 89 Church St.S.E. Minneapolis MN 55455 USA http://blog.lib.umn.edu/aalalib/aalalib/ |
Collins Memorial Library University of Puget Sound 1500 N. Warner St. CMB #1021 Tacoma Washington 98416-1021 USA www.pugetsound.edu/library |
Urawa Art Museum (from
3rd November 2012 - 3rd March 2013) 3F Urawa Century City 2-5-1 Naka-cho, Urawa-ku Saitama 330-0062 Japan Tel: 048-827-3215 www.uam.urawa.saitama.jp |
| Artists’ Books Archive - Milan Alzaia Naviglio Grande 54 20144 Milano Italy www.archiviolibridartista.com www.fedi-gini-artistbook.org |
lowercase reading room at the Regional Assembly of Text 3934 Main Street, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada http://lowercasebooks.wordpress.com/about/ |
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| Artotek at the Nordic House library Sturlugata 5 101 Reykjavik Iceland www.nordichouse.is/library/art-library/ |
Sticky Institute Shop 10 Campbell Arcade, Degraves Subway Melbourne Victoria 8009 Australia http://blog.stickyinstitute.com |
If you would like to join future bookmarks projects as an artist, or as a host venue and receive a free distribution box, please get in touch. Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk